WEBVTT - Making Youtube a Career | Robert Terkla, Lunkers TV 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:05.159 What's up, guys. Welcome to The Granger Smith Podcast, Episode 0:00:05.320 --> 0:00:09.600 twenty six. How are you guys doing. Everyone staying good 0:00:09.640 --> 0:00:14.320 out there? Podcast world, YouTube World. You're staying safe. And 0:00:14.360 --> 0:00:19.360 when I say safe, I mean mentally safe. I think 0:00:19.920 --> 0:00:26.799 the threat of depression and anxiety is real, and I 0:00:26.840 --> 0:00:33.200 think it, in my non scientific opinion, it outweighs many 0:00:33.240 --> 0:00:38.320 other dangerous viruses in the world. Anxiety is a killer, 0:00:39.040 --> 0:00:41.680 and that is a fact, and so stay, you have 0:00:41.720 --> 0:00:44.879 to stay. Let me put it this way. There is 0:00:44.960 --> 0:00:49.320 a glass and it has liquid in it, and it 0:00:49.400 --> 0:00:53.040 is exactly even top to bottom. The liquid is right 0:00:53.080 --> 0:00:55.760 in the middle. And you know what I'm getting at. 0:00:55.920 --> 0:00:58.240 You could easily be a half full or an half 0:00:58.320 --> 0:01:02.440 empty guy, that both of you would be right. This 0:01:02.560 --> 0:01:05.600 is no one knows what the heck is going on 0:01:05.680 --> 0:01:09.120 out there right now, and so just choose to be 0:01:09.280 --> 0:01:11.640 half full or at least try to spread a little 0:01:11.720 --> 0:01:15.400 half fullness to your friends, especially on social media. Don't 0:01:15.800 --> 0:01:20.880 don't weaponize fear. I mean, that's a good way to 0:01:20.880 --> 0:01:24.240 say it. Don't don't weaponize fear. There's no reason to 0:01:24.440 --> 0:01:30.920 use fear for clickbait or for good conversation with your friends. 0:01:31.440 --> 0:01:33.440 We don't know. This whole thing might just go away 0:01:33.800 --> 0:01:35.760 in thirty days. It might be gone, it might not, 0:01:35.959 --> 0:01:38.840 It might be we might deal with this for years. 0:01:38.880 --> 0:01:43.640 But why scare people with that? All that being said, 0:01:44.800 --> 0:01:46.800 I'm not working, I'm not touring, But what I do 0:01:46.880 --> 0:01:50.760 have ISyE Apparel, and that has typically been the sponsor 0:01:50.800 --> 0:01:53.440 of all these podcasts and it's it's never been more 0:01:53.440 --> 0:01:59.960 important than right now. Ee Apparel is literally my touring company. 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:02.160 Gee a peril is keeping the lights on in the 0:02:02.200 --> 0:02:06.400 touring company. It's allowing my band and crew to come in, 0:02:06.760 --> 0:02:11.280 keep their jobs and also make a little extra working 0:02:11.480 --> 0:02:17.800 shipping outyege Apparel. 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This guy's definitely 0:03:34.320 --> 0:03:39.760 strange and interesting, and part of that is his career 0:03:39.840 --> 0:03:43.560 path is very interesting. It's not your normal career path. 0:03:44.560 --> 0:03:48.320 Robert Turkla of Lunkers TV is who I am talking about, 0:03:48.960 --> 0:03:53.400 one of the biggest freshwater fishing channels on YouTube, very 0:03:53.400 --> 0:03:55.880 successful at what he does. He's come about it in 0:03:55.920 --> 0:03:58.080 a roundabout way, and I'm gonna get him on the 0:03:58.080 --> 0:04:23.240 phone right now, all right, I'm rolling Robert what's up. 0:04:24.480 --> 0:04:27.840 I'm here for you, Let's go on. Why don't always 0:04:27.839 --> 0:04:30.480 say I'm here for you? I don't know, because I'd 0:04:30.520 --> 0:04:32.240 like to be here for people. Because right now I'm 0:04:32.279 --> 0:04:35.520 stuck in my house standing at a flag. That's literally 0:04:35.520 --> 0:04:38.600 when I'm doing that now, I'm bunching my flag words. Okay, 0:04:39.400 --> 0:04:41.280 there's nothing else to do right now. I don't even 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:43.400 know how to film a video right now. How are 0:04:43.440 --> 0:04:46.760 you filming videos right now? I don't know. I was 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:48.720 thinking about making a series that just starts to say 0:04:48.760 --> 0:04:52.360 one and then goes on to day twenty eight. People 0:04:52.400 --> 0:04:56.520 would watch it. So are you going fishing? Still? No, 0:04:56.880 --> 0:04:59.320 I'm not. I've actually decided I'm not going to leave 0:04:59.360 --> 0:05:02.159 my house all because that's what they just put out right, 0:05:02.240 --> 0:05:05.839 twenty eight days are gonna stay here? Yeah, didn't governor 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:09.640 ever put it out? Yeah. So you're up north North 0:05:09.680 --> 0:05:13.159 Texas and I'm down Central. We seem to be a 0:05:13.160 --> 0:05:18.200 little behind you, guys. Constantly, the Dallas Fort Worth therea 0:05:18.279 --> 0:05:23.440 is is doing things faster than Austin. Surprisingly, Actually, I 0:05:23.480 --> 0:05:25.080 know it's kind of random. You got a little bit 0:05:25.080 --> 0:05:29.120 more local down there. Yeah, so what are you gonna do? 0:05:29.200 --> 0:05:32.880 This is like primetime fishing and you're not doing it. No, 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:36.320 it is prime time fish. When when I see the 0:05:36.360 --> 0:05:38.400 tree saw button, I know that the best is falling. 0:05:38.440 --> 0:05:40.719 And then now I'm literally stuck in my house. I 0:05:40.720 --> 0:05:43.080 don't know. I'm not imagine when this is all over, 0:05:43.200 --> 0:05:45.000 what's gonna what it's gonna be like, people are gonna 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:48.800 be going crazy, They're gonna go I hope, I hope. 0:05:48.839 --> 0:05:50.640 I hope come near to month it's just all over 0:05:50.720 --> 0:05:53.920 with and this is just been joke. I know. Do 0:05:53.960 --> 0:05:57.520 you think I'll ever tour again? Ever? I think I'll 0:05:57.560 --> 0:06:01.720 ever tour again? I I don't know. I read the 0:06:01.760 --> 0:06:03.640 other day that I was talking about three concerts and 0:06:03.640 --> 0:06:08.880 stuff that may not happen all the way through. Uh fall. Well, 0:06:09.360 --> 0:06:10.880 I'm really hope you do, because I really want to 0:06:10.880 --> 0:06:13.359 hear those vocal cords. I really enjoy drinking beer just 0:06:13.400 --> 0:06:18.600 listening to you sing, so well, we could do that 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:21.760 as long as we're practicing social distancing. We could, you know, 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:23.760 like be six feet apart and I could still sing 0:06:24.200 --> 0:06:27.160 and you can drink beer. I know it's not as fun. 0:06:27.200 --> 0:06:29.599 I can get up there, and you know I can't. 0:06:29.600 --> 0:06:31.240 I won't be able to grab the thing, Mikey, I 0:06:31.240 --> 0:06:32.920 was watching I was watching those art today and you 0:06:33.000 --> 0:06:37.160 were doing, have you watched that yet? No? Watch, You're 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:39.400 so lucky and you have three great dicasons to watch 0:06:40.160 --> 0:06:43.920 and uh be lucky you get to watch that, Okay. Man, 0:06:44.320 --> 0:06:46.480 I was thinking about it. This is what my mind 0:06:46.520 --> 0:06:48.000 was going. I was like, Man, all these people are 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:51.480 in this big gathering at this on TV. I was like, well, 0:06:51.480 --> 0:06:53.400 are we ever going to do that again? Are people 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:55.840 going to be so weird worried? And how are you 0:06:55.839 --> 0:06:58.080 gonna sing with a face mask off? Imagine how muscle 0:06:58.120 --> 0:07:01.839 battle sounds. I don't know. Oh man, you're uh you 0:07:01.920 --> 0:07:05.120 make good points. I mean I was telling my band yesterday. 0:07:05.160 --> 0:07:07.520 I was like, guys, I mean, don't get your hopes up. 0:07:07.640 --> 0:07:09.200 We used to think, we used to hope that we'd 0:07:09.320 --> 0:07:15.200 play in June. I have I have no idea now. Yeah. No, 0:07:15.280 --> 0:07:18.560 I don't think that's gonna happen. Yeah. So I'm just 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:21.400 wanting the thing's so bad? Why are they still flying? 0:07:22.800 --> 0:07:25.560 I'm wondering the same thing. You could actually buy flights 0:07:25.560 --> 0:07:28.480 to Europe right now? Why is that? But that doesn't 0:07:28.600 --> 0:07:31.040 doesn't make any sense. Why would you still Why are 0:07:31.040 --> 0:07:34.280 they still flights on in. It's that bad and it 0:07:34.400 --> 0:07:38.480 doesn't make any sense. Do you do you have any 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:42.239 old military connections that ever give you kind of insight 0:07:42.320 --> 0:07:46.680 on what's going on, or Pentagon people or something like that. No, no, 0:07:46.760 --> 0:07:48.920 not right now. Everybody's pretty much a lockdown. All who 0:07:48.920 --> 0:07:52.520 does in the military probably enjoyed themselves. They're getting paid 0:07:53.160 --> 0:07:55.320 no matter what because now they're just gonna sit home 0:07:55.400 --> 0:07:56.760 and they don't have to go into work and do 0:07:56.800 --> 0:07:59.239 all the dumb stuff all day. Are you still getting 0:07:59.240 --> 0:08:05.920 paid you too? On YouTube? Yeah, it's cut down a lot, 0:08:06.320 --> 0:08:08.040 like a lot. I hope it doesn't last for a 0:08:08.080 --> 0:08:11.960 couple of months. That would really suck. So why did 0:08:12.000 --> 0:08:14.640 you decide to do YouTube as a career? And like, 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:17.560 what what point did you say, you know what, I'm 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:20.840 going to do this and nothing else. I'm going to fish. 0:08:21.240 --> 0:08:25.160 Oh that actually sounds messing. I didn't really start like 0:08:25.200 --> 0:08:26.640 I was. I was selling cars. I figure out the 0:08:26.680 --> 0:08:28.920 longer and I was drinking way too much. And then 0:08:29.000 --> 0:08:31.480 I quit selling cars one day really randomly, like I 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:33.880 was drinking way too much, Like my face was like 0:08:33.920 --> 0:08:37.160 red all times in a shash, and then I realized, Man, 0:08:37.160 --> 0:08:38.880 I can do YouTube. Videos because then it would make 0:08:38.920 --> 0:08:41.080 me stop drinking because then I can't get drunk on video. 0:08:41.080 --> 0:08:44.880 That's pretty much where it was. Come on that real stuff, 0:08:44.960 --> 0:08:47.280 true stuff. My buddy told me I should make YouTube videos, 0:08:47.320 --> 0:08:49.800 and so I started making us videos and then I, 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:52.000 I don't know one in the fishing world. We're doing 0:08:52.080 --> 0:08:54.080 daily videos, and so I was like, you know what, 0:08:54.160 --> 0:08:56.280 I'm getting a shot, and I started doing daily videos. 0:08:56.360 --> 0:08:58.040 I get made fun of a bunch of the beginning, 0:08:58.080 --> 0:09:01.520 so like showing people how to make toast and stuff 0:09:01.559 --> 0:09:11.920 like that. What year was that, twenty fifteen? I think sixteen. 0:09:12.080 --> 0:09:14.400 But I made my channel was like five days. It 0:09:14.440 --> 0:09:19.120 was not a chee four days after she was born backwards, okay, 0:09:20.080 --> 0:09:22.400 and you told me that you you didn't even really 0:09:22.440 --> 0:09:25.800 know how to fish that well before you started the channel. No, 0:09:25.920 --> 0:09:27.920 I was terrible, and I was terrible. I had a 0:09:29.040 --> 0:09:31.160 no no, no, it was really bad. Didn't know what 0:09:31.200 --> 0:09:32.720 I was doing. I mean, I was just really fishing, 0:09:32.840 --> 0:09:36.000 just to fish. And then apparently people like to watch 0:09:36.000 --> 0:09:37.559 people that don't what to do it. So pretty much 0:09:37.559 --> 0:09:41.319 everything I've learned has been through day one and YouTube videos. 0:09:41.960 --> 0:09:44.679 Now that's probably why it's so popular, because no, one 0:09:44.720 --> 0:09:47.760 wants to see a know it all. Yeah, I'm definitely 0:09:47.760 --> 0:09:49.040 not gonna know it all even the other day. I mean, 0:09:49.080 --> 0:09:51.160 I know a bit more than I did five years ago. 0:09:51.280 --> 0:09:55.160 But because if you think about it, I would assume, 0:09:55.720 --> 0:09:59.040 on a serious note, in five years I probably finished 0:09:59.360 --> 0:10:03.640 over a foul sometimes yeah, over a fountain days in 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:08.760 five years actually probably probably close to like eleven. It's 0:10:08.800 --> 0:10:11.600 that law of mastery or whatever. You've mastered fishing. You're 0:10:11.640 --> 0:10:15.360 You're the best fisherman I've ever been with in my life. Well, 0:10:15.400 --> 0:10:17.960 I appreciate that. That's I don't know how many people 0:10:18.040 --> 0:10:21.640 you fish, but I will take that. Yeah, I mean, 0:10:22.000 --> 0:10:24.439 and the reason it's such a crazy question is because 0:10:25.160 --> 0:10:27.920 how many people would say, screw it, I'm just gonna 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:29.959 quit my job and just fish on YouTube. I mean 0:10:29.960 --> 0:10:34.160 that that's like the ultimate man dream. But you actually 0:10:34.200 --> 0:10:36.400 did it, and then you were really successful with it. 0:10:37.640 --> 0:10:40.280 I got really lucky, to be honest. I just came 0:10:40.320 --> 0:10:42.160 in at the right time. I met the right people, 0:10:43.360 --> 0:10:45.079 me and the boys, and then we kind of just 0:10:45.559 --> 0:10:48.400 grew together really fast. I think I think we starting 0:10:48.440 --> 0:10:51.120 the whole daily thing got them kind of motivated. The 0:10:51.200 --> 0:10:53.080 chances that we had inverdeing their stuff, and then they 0:10:53.160 --> 0:10:56.120 kind of once everybody started doing stuff that wasn't so 0:10:56.400 --> 0:10:59.440 espishly the ditch market. But if you could make it 0:10:59.480 --> 0:11:02.640 to where everybody can be kind of relatable to it, 0:11:02.800 --> 0:11:05.640 like showing your daily life, then that's when the market 0:11:05.679 --> 0:11:09.120 took off. To be honest, that's actually what really started 0:11:09.120 --> 0:11:11.319 propelling is not is when, not really when I started 0:11:11.360 --> 0:11:13.400 doing it, but when everybody else started making daily videos 0:11:13.400 --> 0:11:17.000 as well, and then you were the one they found. 0:11:18.679 --> 0:11:22.000 So so when you well, I mean because you were 0:11:22.000 --> 0:11:25.800 doing it before them, obviously, yeah I was, but they 0:11:25.840 --> 0:11:28.200 had a little the other guys that was I messed with. 0:11:28.280 --> 0:11:30.199 All all the guys they had, they hadn't quite a 0:11:30.200 --> 0:11:35.000 bit head saw on me. So when you say the guys, 0:11:35.040 --> 0:11:38.440 you're talking about the Google guys. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 0:11:38.600 --> 0:11:40.640 There was a couple of bigger YouTubers that were fishing 0:11:40.679 --> 0:11:42.720 at the time. But the thing is is, like when 0:11:42.760 --> 0:11:46.600 everything started changing, like the way that YouTube YouTube is 0:11:46.600 --> 0:11:49.240 like it's always changing. You have to evolve and you 0:11:49.240 --> 0:11:51.440 have to be like a chameleon on YouTube, Like you 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:53.400 got to be able to mold and the surrouvings and 0:11:53.440 --> 0:11:55.120 some of the people that were big on YouTube. When 0:11:55.120 --> 0:11:57.840 it came to fishing, they could not adapt did. They 0:11:57.880 --> 0:12:00.000 kind of fell off, And that's kind of what happened. 0:12:00.000 --> 0:12:02.440 Happened over the years. That's why you see, like I 0:12:02.440 --> 0:12:04.320 saw doing so much fish and stuff, and I brought 0:12:04.360 --> 0:12:06.520 him hunting and I brought in dumb stuff. Now he's 0:12:06.520 --> 0:12:09.760 a Flair that has his own damn farm people. You 0:12:09.800 --> 0:12:13.719 can't just fish or you'll die. Yeah, So how did 0:12:13.760 --> 0:12:17.400 you guys get together? Originally they googen guys and then 0:12:17.679 --> 0:12:22.160 I sent how it all started? Was I sent back 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:25.559 in the day, I sent a flare jon Apart. Y'all 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:26.880 come in to each other a little bit before, and 0:12:26.880 --> 0:12:28.320 they kind of got a couple of collobs. But then 0:12:28.320 --> 0:12:31.760 I sent Flair a Twitter to him and on Twitter, 0:12:31.760 --> 0:12:33.800 I was my other account was verified, so he answered it. 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:35.360 It's the means why he said he answers and that 0:12:35.400 --> 0:12:37.680 was verified and I wasn't a random person. And he 0:12:37.760 --> 0:12:41.199 flew down and he fished me for double edgys and 0:12:41.200 --> 0:12:43.080 me and him chatted and then we started getting all 0:12:43.120 --> 0:12:46.160 the guys together. And then we all started working in 0:12:46.200 --> 0:12:48.000 a little circle, and we didn't really work with anybody 0:12:48.000 --> 0:12:50.439 outside of us circle. It's pretty much how it all 0:12:50.520 --> 0:12:55.439 got started. So you started it. I wouldn't say I started. 0:12:55.520 --> 0:12:57.720 I like to say we started it as a group, 0:12:57.760 --> 0:13:02.080 because there's a group effort. That's crazy, man. I mean, 0:13:02.640 --> 0:13:04.880 I know I'm a country singer and that sounds cool, 0:13:05.240 --> 0:13:08.840 but fishing for a living, I mean that, that's seriously, 0:13:08.880 --> 0:13:12.560 that's like the man dream of America. Yeah, no, it 0:13:12.640 --> 0:13:15.280 is awesome. I'll never complain if everybody hears me complain 0:13:15.320 --> 0:13:20.280 about that. It's crazy. Yes, I like I like hone ELK, 0:13:20.360 --> 0:13:23.480 and I like business. I like business just as Yeah, 0:13:23.520 --> 0:13:26.400 you're really good at business. So what So that's that 0:13:26.480 --> 0:13:29.640 brings me to why did you You've made this decision 0:13:29.679 --> 0:13:31.840 a couple of times to stay with YouTube and not 0:13:31.880 --> 0:13:37.200 go pro. Yeah, but now you're kind of debating it again. Yeah, 0:13:37.240 --> 0:13:40.960 I go back and forward. I'll do it at some point. 0:13:41.000 --> 0:13:43.240 I don't know exactly what I'm gonna do it, especially now, 0:13:43.520 --> 0:13:45.600 well I don't even know to be another, don't how 0:13:45.640 --> 0:13:49.760 to cancel a ton of ship. So uh, I'll do 0:13:49.800 --> 0:13:51.160 at some point, just because I need to check it 0:13:51.160 --> 0:13:53.199 off my list. I will. I'm gonna be there. I 0:13:53.520 --> 0:13:56.000 already told myself whenever I go to do it, I'm 0:13:56.000 --> 0:13:59.360 gonna be like any winnings that really get obviously donated forturnity, 0:13:59.720 --> 0:14:01.000 because I won't be doing it for mot me and 0:14:01.080 --> 0:14:03.640 definitely I'll just be doing it just to basically win 0:14:03.760 --> 0:14:06.360 and kind of check that off my blocks and kind 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:09.719 of go off. And that would build Lunkers TV. It 0:14:09.840 --> 0:14:12.720 build credibility more probably, Yeah, yeah, it'd be a little 0:14:12.720 --> 0:14:14.760 bit more validity up ebating. And we have a lot 0:14:14.800 --> 0:14:17.520 of people that talked. That's the funny thing about how 0:14:17.559 --> 0:14:19.400 it all started. A lot of people talk terrible about it, 0:14:19.640 --> 0:14:21.440 like the first I would say two and a half 0:14:21.440 --> 0:14:24.400 to three years of the entire thing, and then once 0:14:24.440 --> 0:14:28.520 we started really taking over all of the stuff, then 0:14:28.560 --> 0:14:32.040 they kind of stopped. So so this is basically the 0:14:32.080 --> 0:14:35.560 final now on the coffin in my eyes, yeah, that 0:14:35.640 --> 0:14:41.680 would be. And then you got into storage buying. How 0:14:41.800 --> 0:14:46.920 did that start? I actually had my original accounts on 0:14:46.960 --> 0:14:48.720 this blood trick on store Turger. I made it back 0:14:48.720 --> 0:14:51.600 to two I want to Dynasty. I made it because 0:14:51.600 --> 0:14:53.520 I was I was watching the show on TV and 0:14:53.520 --> 0:14:55.040 I was like, hey, I do that. It was like 0:14:55.120 --> 0:14:58.320 fun And I was sitting on the stairs store probably 0:14:59.360 --> 0:15:01.320 four months ago, and there hadn't been. A gentleman came 0:15:01.320 --> 0:15:03.480 and there was talking about it, and I overheard him 0:15:03.480 --> 0:15:06.280 talking about asked about it, and I kind of spurred 0:15:06.320 --> 0:15:10.400 my interest to do it. And being the you two roads, 0:15:10.440 --> 0:15:12.160 like I bought the first unit I found that had 0:15:12.160 --> 0:15:13.720 something cool and you I could see that there's a 0:15:13.760 --> 0:15:15.200 dirt bike in the back, and I'm like, I want 0:15:15.200 --> 0:15:19.000 that unit. So for those of you that don't know 0:15:19.040 --> 0:15:23.960 what he's talking about, he's you buy storage units, and 0:15:24.080 --> 0:15:26.000 I didn't know. I mean, I've seen I've seen the 0:15:26.560 --> 0:15:29.800 reality TV a little bit about it, but I didn't 0:15:29.840 --> 0:15:32.600 really know much about that business world that there's people 0:15:32.600 --> 0:15:37.880 that make a living buying abandoned, right, abandoned storage units 0:15:38.040 --> 0:15:41.400 that yeah, the reason was once that people haven't paid 0:15:41.440 --> 0:15:43.760 for or a person passes, or they go to jail 0:15:44.880 --> 0:15:49.480 for supremature. So then that the tenant, the owner of 0:15:49.520 --> 0:15:54.040 the of the facility, they just put him up for auction. 0:15:55.720 --> 0:15:57.720 They have like I think it's like a sixty day render. 0:15:57.880 --> 0:16:00.240 They have getted for a thirty day public notice out 0:16:00.280 --> 0:16:03.400 and you have the original tenant thirty days to day, 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:05.280 and then they don't pay it. Then they just put 0:16:05.320 --> 0:16:08.080 them up watching and you get to see it before 0:16:08.080 --> 0:16:11.160 you buy it. Yeah, Aline, you get to see him 0:16:11.160 --> 0:16:14.040 for like I don't know, you get to see photos, 0:16:14.040 --> 0:16:16.000 but in person you have like fifteen seconds and twenty 0:16:16.000 --> 0:16:20.920 seconds or so, whoa twenty seconds? Yes quick, you look 0:16:20.920 --> 0:16:23.280 at what you're looking in there and and over over 0:16:23.320 --> 0:16:24.840 the time, I've linkedup with a guy and that's really 0:16:24.880 --> 0:16:27.240 even with like twenty years. So it's kind of made 0:16:27.280 --> 0:16:30.200 it really easy for me to pinpoint. That's what I 0:16:30.240 --> 0:16:32.400 was able to pick up that fraudulent a couple of 0:16:32.440 --> 0:16:36.880 weeks ago. Dude, Okay, so that was that is crazy. 0:16:37.120 --> 0:16:40.560 So you got this channel Lunkers TV. You know, it's 0:16:40.600 --> 0:16:44.040 about fishing and hunting, but one the one of the 0:16:44.080 --> 0:16:46.920 amazing videos has nothing to do with either one of 0:16:46.960 --> 0:16:50.720 those things. It's you catching this lady and fraud. I 0:16:50.760 --> 0:16:54.480 watched the whole thing. It was good. It was good television, 0:16:55.080 --> 0:16:58.760 Like it was really it's really good. Like I was 0:16:58.840 --> 0:17:02.440 just like, I can't put my phone down watching this episode. 0:17:03.080 --> 0:17:05.400 So they staged the unit. You said that, you said 0:17:05.400 --> 0:17:08.600 you get to see a unit for fifteen to twenty seconds, 0:17:08.640 --> 0:17:12.199 and then these people staged the unit to make it 0:17:12.240 --> 0:17:15.280 look like it was really valuable when in reality, it 0:17:15.359 --> 0:17:18.520 was just like a few decent things in the front 0:17:18.920 --> 0:17:22.240 and then junk in the back that was in really 0:17:22.359 --> 0:17:26.840 nice boxes. Yeah, exactly. So livings were bought on lines. 0:17:26.920 --> 0:17:29.760 I bought one of December and I got it, just 0:17:29.760 --> 0:17:31.840 went back all the way back to December and we 0:17:31.880 --> 0:17:34.480 bought one of the seat prior online from the same complex. 0:17:34.480 --> 0:17:36.240 Didn't even realized that. I was sitting there drinking whiskey 0:17:36.280 --> 0:17:38.479 one night, just scrolling through them, just some pretty much 0:17:38.520 --> 0:17:39.720 what I do of and I just to see what's 0:17:39.720 --> 0:17:41.680 going on. And I found it. It It looked good and 0:17:41.720 --> 0:17:43.200 I put on it and I noticed, man, this was 0:17:43.240 --> 0:17:45.919 good looking. And I was the third complex where it was, 0:17:46.440 --> 0:17:48.480 and then I was like, holy shit, this is all 0:17:48.520 --> 0:17:50.600 the tame. And I go back to the previous two 0:17:50.600 --> 0:17:53.000 that we had bought and we lost that song. I 0:17:53.080 --> 0:17:55.600 was like, oh my god, they're staged. And then that's 0:17:55.640 --> 0:17:58.040 when we opened it up, and I knew that's why 0:17:58.080 --> 0:18:00.199 I went in there knowing what it was. But I 0:18:00.200 --> 0:18:02.320 was kind of like hoping that I was wrong. But 0:18:03.119 --> 0:18:04.720 a lot of people don't know this. I've actually talked 0:18:04.720 --> 0:18:06.240 to the owner of that lady was fired, she lost 0:18:06.240 --> 0:18:09.479 her job, and I'm actually gonna be working with Storage 0:18:09.520 --> 0:18:13.200 Treasures here in for all this stuff done to help 0:18:13.280 --> 0:18:17.879 them fight the whole podulent stuff. I'm gonna actually do 0:18:17.920 --> 0:18:20.240 an entire serial on how to find it deside it 0:18:20.320 --> 0:18:23.479 so people stop it. So that's a big thing. How 0:18:23.520 --> 0:18:29.760 of that fraud? That's huge? Yeah? God, So what ended 0:18:29.800 --> 0:18:31.800 up happening with that for that instance? Did you lose 0:18:31.800 --> 0:18:34.119 money or did you get it back? No? I know what. 0:18:34.200 --> 0:18:36.200 I got my money back instant like serious wly gave 0:18:36.200 --> 0:18:38.480 me the cause I told myself going in there, I 0:18:38.520 --> 0:18:39.960 didn't care if he was going to cost some five 0:18:40.040 --> 0:18:42.320 grand to buy it. I was going to overpay just 0:18:42.320 --> 0:18:44.280 to prove a point. So I knew have to give 0:18:44.280 --> 0:18:46.200 my money back. And that's what I had. I overpaid 0:18:46.200 --> 0:18:47.919 for that. You know, I paid seventeen hundred and fifteen. 0:18:47.920 --> 0:18:51.919 She gave it back instantly, and say also repaid grounds 0:18:51.960 --> 0:18:58.200 to the week prior the owner did. So it was interesting. 0:18:59.040 --> 0:19:01.439 I promise you will find more. I find the one 0:19:01.480 --> 0:19:03.280 hundred percent. We find them all the time. They haven't 0:19:03.359 --> 0:19:05.639 been in New York. I bought that storage com the 0:19:05.720 --> 0:19:11.440 Storage Union one or the Storage the Comic one. Oh yeah, yeah, 0:19:10.280 --> 0:19:13.159 So do you have to be a member of some 0:19:13.240 --> 0:19:17.360 website that you get the CDs for sale storage units. Yeah, 0:19:17.840 --> 0:19:19.040 I mean it's you don't have to be a member 0:19:19.040 --> 0:19:21.159 on them, but you get ten percent off of your 0:19:21.240 --> 0:19:24.639 members by units in bulk. You definitely want to be 0:19:24.720 --> 0:19:28.600 a members. He saves a lot. Yeah, and with this 0:19:28.680 --> 0:19:31.200 crazy virus thing, no one wants to be going through 0:19:31.240 --> 0:19:35.680 storage units right now probably huh yeah, No, it'll in 0:19:35.680 --> 0:19:38.199 two months, so whenever it's over with, there'll be a 0:19:38.240 --> 0:19:40.439 giant mess of them. There's a lot of money to 0:19:40.480 --> 0:19:43.120 be made in so and a lot if you buy 0:19:43.119 --> 0:19:46.080 it correctly, you can make a lot of money. But 0:19:46.520 --> 0:19:50.040 that's like one of America's secret talents is putting all 0:19:50.040 --> 0:19:53.879 their junk in storage units and forgetting about it. You 0:19:53.880 --> 0:19:56.040 should see did you should see some little stuff from sound? 0:19:56.080 --> 0:19:57.240 There was one in Atlanta. I want to have a 0:19:57.240 --> 0:20:01.240 bought the comic unit that had six guns in it 0:20:01.280 --> 0:20:03.280 in Atlanta and it was going for this at the 0:20:03.320 --> 0:20:04.840 time for thirteen grand. And the only reason why I 0:20:04.840 --> 0:20:06.720 didn't buy this because I've just spent thirteen grand on 0:20:06.760 --> 0:20:11.359 the melon. They had six well six gun stakes. It 0:20:11.480 --> 0:20:13.680 was like, so I told you that some of the 0:20:13.800 --> 0:20:15.639 people they go to jail and stuff like that that 0:20:15.720 --> 0:20:18.480 they die and people forget about their that kind of stuff. 0:20:19.320 --> 0:20:21.159 The unit. When we when we what we call like 0:20:22.760 --> 0:20:24.480 like gauging the unit, like we kind of can tell 0:20:24.480 --> 0:20:26.040 the story, what's what's going on there. It had so 0:20:26.119 --> 0:20:28.480 much expensive furniture, had all this expensive stuff in it. 0:20:28.480 --> 0:20:30.600 So the guy was probably in jail for a white 0:20:30.600 --> 0:20:33.680 collar time and no one can get his stuff out. 0:20:34.040 --> 0:20:35.879 That's the only thing we can come up with. Everything 0:20:35.880 --> 0:20:40.200 inside it is so extensive, But that's what's kind of 0:20:40.240 --> 0:20:42.920 fun about it. Yeah, it's in a little treasure chest. 0:20:43.160 --> 0:20:44.879 You never noticed that. I'm in. My whole plan with 0:20:44.960 --> 0:20:47.359 that one was to load upaul the safe a U 0:20:47.359 --> 0:20:49.880 haul truck and drive them back to Texas. So because 0:20:49.920 --> 0:20:52.439 if I would have opened them inside of Georgia and 0:20:52.480 --> 0:20:54.480 it would have been like a suppressor or something inside 0:20:54.520 --> 0:20:56.040 the safe, so they would have been a federal offensive 0:20:56.040 --> 0:20:58.800 transfer across state line right when the transmitting back to 0:20:58.880 --> 0:21:01.640 Texas and opened it there and then I'm in Texas, 0:21:01.960 --> 0:21:04.000 so I would have never known what was inside the stafe. Okay, 0:21:04.080 --> 0:21:06.679 so what was in it? I know I didn't buy 0:21:06.720 --> 0:21:09.680